Building up your brand id

Building up your brand id

The key to creative and effective branding of any program, product, service or institution is finding the right positioning – to drive the advertising and other marketing tools. It does not have to be complicated or weird. In fact, if it’s good and effective, it’s simple and will follow this “Rule of consumers” – “You’re what you appear to be.” This position, or ‘brand’ is really an identity – a way people can sort through all the confusing information and summarize what they think about something.
What do you get with a brand identity?

Over the last 25 years we have come to learn that the development of brand identity is much more than a mere benchmark denoting successful arrival in brand identity business, or its evolution and growth. A highly competitive business environment in today’s highly competitive business environment.

Just to lay some “groundwork”, here are the reasons why you can have a strategically important effect on your bottom line.

o It’s easy to know who you are, which means:

o It’s easy to know what you do. (Helps develop goals)

o It’s easy to know how to do it. (Helps with implementation)

o Less energy is expended overall. (Creates efficiency in communications)

o Team building occurs naturally when staff can identify with common symbols, common language and therefore common goals. (Sports uniforms are a good example.) Every player feels like a part of the group.)

o You can match your image for your business needs or view of his business. (A simple matter of “give what they want.”)

o With a clearly defined identity you communicate more efficiently with your customers, and they remember you more easily. (Memorability is easier when everybody is clear you are are.)

o Benefits and unique qualities of your business are communicated more clearly to your clients thereby increasing sales. (Marketing tool)

o Helps set identifiable standards of quality in your product or service. Helps with a sense of reliability by developing a “brand identity.” (Brand names are trusted.)

So, what is a corporate brand anyway?

As we begin the process of making recommendations for developing a corporate branding identity let’s talk about what we really mean by “brand.” What is it, why does it work, how does it work and who makes it work.